Equality and Differentiation in Marketised Higher Education: A New Level Playing Field?

Chapter 1. Diversity and differentiation, equity and equality in a marketised higher education system; Marion Bowl. Chapter 2. International policies for higher education and their national variants: reconciling equality and marketisation in national policy texts; Marion Bowl. Chapter 3. English Higher Education: widening participation and the historical context for system differentiation; Colin McCaig. Chapter 4. System differentiation in England: the imposition of supply and demand; Colin McCaig. Chapter 5. Can 'alternative providers' really improve equality of opportunity for students entering higher education?; G.R Evans. Chapter 6. Institutional diversification and student diversity in English higher education; Anne-Marie Bathmaker and Marion Bowl. Chapter 7. Marketisation, institutional stratification and differentiated pedagogic approaches; Jacqueline Stevenson, Pauline Whelan and Penny-Jane Burke. Chapter 8. Measurement imperatives and their impact: academic staff narratives on riding the metric tide; Carol Taylor, Jean Harris-Evans, Iain Garner, Damien Fitzgerald and Manuel Madriaga. Chapter 9. Conceptualising equality, equity and differentiation in marketised higher education: fractures and fault-lines in the neoliberal imaginary; Colin McCaig, Marion Bowl and Jonathan Hughes.